Alcatel-Lucent is to acquire privately
held NetDevices to offer customers an improved way
to manage their branch office networks.
NetDevices sells the Unified Service Gateway which is designed to
deliver cheaper and more flexible enterprise networking over
branch office networks.
NetDevices was founded in 2003, and has 45 employees located in
Sunnyvale, California and Bangalore, India.
Hubert de Pesquidoux, president of Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise
business, said, "Enterprises are quickly evolving to a converged
communications infrastructure of data, voice, and security
services.
“Traditional architectures lack the flexibility and
programmability to deploy these new converged infrastructures in a
cost-effective way. A fresh approach, based on the innovative
enterprise platform from NetDevices combined with our voice and
switching offering, helps to deliver best in class enterprise
networks."
NetDevices' services gateways bring all required services for a
branch office into a unified package, reducing the network
complexity for enterprise customers and SMEs.
The NetDevices team and products will be integrated into
Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise business group. The value of the
acquisition has not been disclosed.
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